Suspenders and trousers connection.



Patented July 29,, 1902. R. T. CLARKE. SUSPENDERS AND TROUSERS CONNECTION.

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(Application filed Oct. 11, 1901.)

(No Model.)

WITNESSES;

i NITED STATE-s PATENT ()FFICE RICHARD T. CLARKE, OF COLUMBUS, OHIO.

SUSPENDERS AND TROUSERS CONNECTION.

LSPECIFIUATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 705,648, dated July 29, 1902.

Application filed October 11,1901- Serial No. 78.349. (No model.)

of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Suspenders and Trousers Connections, of which the following isa specification.

My invention relates to the improvement of suspenders and trousers connections; and

the objects of my invention are to provide Suspender-ends with an improved attachment adapted to detachably engage a buttonon the inner side of a trousersband, to provide said Suspender-end attachment in a simple and inexpensive form, and to produce other improvements which will be more fully pointed out hereinafter. These objectsI accomplish in the manner illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a view in perspective of the lower portion of a Suspender-strap and its depending button-engaging ends, and Fig. 2 is a vertical section through a trousers-band and through one of said suspender-ends and my improved button-engagin g attachment.

Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout both views.

1 represents the usual button-en gaging ends or terminations of a suspender-strap, the

outer and preferably enlarged end portions of which are provided with the usual buttonhole-openings 2.

3 represents my improved attachment,

which, as indicated in the drawings, consists of a wire doubled centrally. Toward its inner or doubled end the wire body thus formed is, as indicated in the drawings, bent upward and thence downward, the downwardlydoent 4o portion being spread to form a substantially loop-like tongue 4. From these bent portions the arms or members of the body 3'extend upward a short distance adjacent to each other, this portion being indicated at 5.

Above the portion5 said wire-body members are provided with opposing outward bends, forming between the same a socket 6, having a contracted neck portion or entrance 7. From this neck the members extend upward,

5o outward, and inward, the end portions thereof being bent inward on a horizontal plane, as indicated at 8. The inturned terminations S extend loosely within the ends of a couplingtube 0.

In attaching the above-described device to a Suspender-end the enlarged and buttonhole-containing portion of the suspender-end is first inserted between the upper and flaring members of the wire body 3 and in front of thecoupling 9. This being accomplished the lower end of said wire body is connected with the Suspender-end by the insertion of the loop termination 4 through the lower portion of the buttonhole 2 and then forcing said Wire body downward until the Suspender-end below said buttonhole is engaged between said loop termination and the upwardly-bent lower end portion of said wire body. The button-engaging device thus attached to the suspendenend is particularly adapted to be used in engaging buttons which are sewed or otherwise secured on the inner side of a trou sers-band, this invention being also particularly designed for use where the suspenders are worn beneath the outer shirt.- In Fig. 2 of the drawings I have illustrated a portion of a trousers-band 10, from which projects inwardly a button 11. In forming the con .nection between the button and button-engaging suspender attachment the upper and wider portion of the wire body 3 is first made to receive the button, after which the suspender-end is drawn upward until the shank of the button is passed into the loop 6. In

this operation it is obvious that the suspenders being worn beneath the outer shirt a portion of the goods 12 forming the outer shirt of the button from the socket may require,

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a button-engaging attachment for susformed above said terminal portion and an pender-ends, the combination with the susupper flaring portion receiving as described pender-end having a butfionhole or other opena Suspender-end, substantially as specified.

ing therein, of a button-engaging device com- RICHARD T. CLARKE. 5 prising a centrally-doubled body 3 having its In presence ofdoubled end portion formed with an upwardly A. L. PHELPS,

and downwardly bent termination, a socket F. G. Z'WERNER. 

